Quit-smoking basics
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Quitting smoking: 10 ways to resist tobacco cravings
Each time you resist a tobacco craving, you're one step closer to stopping tobacco use for good. Use these tips to fight off cravings.
Quit-smoking products: Boost your chance of success
Many quit-smoking products are available and using one or more can greatly increase your chance of success. Check out your options.
Smokeless tobacco products
Learn the risks of using products such as chewing tobacco, snuff and snus.
Scorpion sting
Scorpion stings are painful but rarely life-threatening. Young children and older adults are most at risk of serious complications.
Pink eye (conjunctivitis)
This highly contagious eye condition can be itchy and uncomfortable. But much like the common cold, it rarely requires medicine or staying home.
Cigar smoking: Safer than cigarette smoking?
Despite what you might think, cigars aren't that different from cigarettes. Like cigarettes, cigars contain nicotine, tobacco and cancer-causing chemicals.
Hookah smoking: Is it safer than cigarette smoking?
This habit isn't safer than smoking cigarettes. Find out why.
Ringworm (scalp)
Learn more on causes, symptoms, treatments of this easily spread, itchy fungal skin infection and how to prevent it.
Thalassemia
Some forms of this inherited blood disorder usually show up before the age of 2, often causing anemia. More severe forms of the disease require regular blood transfusions.
Mumps
Find out more about the symptoms and treatment of this viral illness and how vaccines can prevent it.
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